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United States Patent | 6,026,187 |
Siegel | February 15, 2000 |
A printing system for automatically print-filling in an original form includes a scanner, a printer unit, an operator input unit, a display unit, a main processor and unit controllers. The original form is scanned to create a bitmap thereof that is stored in a first memory area as a first document including fill-in areas. A second blank document is created and stored in a second memory area. The first and second documents are displayed with the second document overlaying the first document. Required fill-in information is operator inputted onto the second document in areas thereof overlaying the fill-in areas in the first document. The original form is then loaded into the printer unit and the second document is selectively printed automatically onto the loaded original form.
Inventors: | Siegel; Robert P. (Penfield, NY) |
Assignee: | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Appl. No.: | 915839 |
Filed: | August 21, 1997 |
Current U.S. Class: | 382/213; 345/629; 358/450; 715/507 |
Intern'l Class: | G06K 009/74 |
Field of Search: | 345/112-116,435 358/448-450,452-453 382/175,282-284,100,180,213,214,287,291,294 395/133,135,510,766-769,961,964 707/505-526 |
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